A new show "Five Friends" at Museum Brandhorst considers Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, and Cy Twombly.

The programming language remains popular in artificial intelligence research. The founder, John McCarthy, based Lisp on Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus and was originally created for practical ...

John McCarthy designed the LISP programming language for the symbolic computation typical of artificial intelligence at the time, and LISP was strongly associated with AI at least through the 1990s.

Invented by John McCarthy in the late 1950s, Lisp tied together the research community that helped create the internet. Spreading out of MIT, Lisp offered some modern features for the first time, such ...

1958: John McCarthy develops Lisp, the first AI programming language. 1959: Arthur Samuel coined the term machine learning in a seminal paper explaining that the computer could be programmed to ...

John McCarthy's early life and education John McCarthy was an American computer scientist widely regarded as one of the principal founders of artificial intelligence (AI).

The creator of the Lisp programming language and longtime Stanford University professor, died yesterday at the age of 84.